A little background:
I bought this WD NAS over ten years ago and it has ran fine up until about six weeks ago
when it died. Windows 7 just no longer sees the mapped out drives in My Computer. There
were no sounds coming from the spinning drives just nothing. So I decided it was a WD
enclosure problem and not a hard drive problem. So I pulled the hard drives from their
enclosure and connected one of them to a “USB to SATA Adapter”, then plugged it into my
computer. The computer made a sound of a USB device being plugged in, but nothing
showed up in My Computer window. My conclusion is that I would have to look elsewhere
for my answer if I wanted my data back.
So I started my research on the internet, and found there are a lot of people with the
same problem and no support or fix from WD to correct it. I found that some people had
success with Linux. I have an older DELL laptop laying around so I loaded Linux Mint 20
“Ulyana” – Cinnamon (64-bit) on to this older DELL. I can at least see the drive now in
the My Computer window but can’t get into it. When I try, I get the error message “Unable
to mount location”.
In the past six weeks I have read and tried countless internet posts, most of them have
been Terminal Window stuff without any success. I know there is a solution out there, I
just need someone’s help to find it.
If you are willing to take on this challenge, you will find that I’m highly motivated to
retrieve my data. I promise to check this forum every day and try your suggested key
strokes and post results.
Shown below are two looks at both drives “Disks” & “sudo fdisk -l”. I’m hoping that if
someone is willing to help me this will be useful to you.
Thank You in Advance
TSQMAN-1
Information from Linux Mint Disks Command -----Disk Number 1
Model: WDC WD20EADS-00R6B0 (01.00A01)
Size: 2.0 TB (2,000,398,934,016 bytes)
Partitioning: Master Boot Record
Serial Number: WD-WCAVY2497662
Assessment: Disk is OK, one bad sector
Information on Partition 4 (It’s the Largest and I Believe the Data is Here)
Size: 2.0 TB (1,997,081,543,168 bytes)
Device: /dev/sdb4
UUID: 8f7e3052-dbae-d664-7273-ee3ce6483360
Partition Type: Linux RAID auto
ConTents: Linux RAID Member (version 0.90.0)
Information from Terminal Window Command “sudo fdisk -l” -----Disk Number 1
Disk /dev/sdc: 1.84 TiB, 2000398934016 bytes, 3907029168 sectors
Disk model: EADS-00R6B0
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x0001cf00
Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/sdc1 64320 3984191 3919872 1.9G fd Linux raid autodetect
/dev/sdc2 3984192 4498175 513984 251M fd Linux raid autodetect
/dev/sdc3 4498176 6474175 1976000 964.9M fd Linux raid autodetect
/dev/sdc4 6474176 3907024064 3900549889 1.8T fd Linux raid autodetect
Information from Linux Mint Disks Command -----Disk Number 2
Data is exactly the same as disk number 1 except what’s shown below.
Serial Number: WD-WCAVY2497155
Information on Partition 4 (It’s the Largest and I Believe the Data is Here)
UUID: 3066fbfa-03fd-8233-4217-cbc4f1db6bbb
Information from Terminal Window Command “sudo fdisk -l” -----Disk Number 2
Data is exactly the same as disk number 1 except what’s shown below.
Disk /dev/sdb: 1.84 TiB, 2000398934016 bytes, 3907029168 sectors
Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/sdb1 64320 3984191 3919872 1.9G fd Linux raid autodetect
/dev/sdb2 3984192 4498175 513984 251M fd Linux raid autodetect
/dev/sdb3 4498176 6474175 1976000 964.9M fd Linux raid autodetect
/dev/sdb4 6474176 3907024064 3900549889 1.8T fd Linux raid autodetect
